Market Bag: Hot pepper as low as $500 as food prices cool at ‘Curry’
KINGSTON, Jamaica – There’s good news for shoppers this week as Scotch bonnet pepper prices – a ‘hot’ topic during the recent Christmas holidays – are down to as low as $500 a pound at the Coronation Market, after being sold for up to 10 times that amount just weeks ago during the heights of the Yuletide.
It reflects a general decline in prices for food items at the downtown Kingston landmark.
Since our last trip to ‘Curry’ just before Christmas, escallion prices are halved to $200 a pound; tomatoes are slightly down from $700 to $600; sweet peppers have dipped to $600 from $800; and carrots are down by 50 per cent to $150.
This week, Market Bag host Carlysia Ramdeen is joined by Prime Minister Youth Awardee for excellence in agriculture, Carlton Bell Jr, and there is a special guest appearance by Jamaican comedian, Boasy Boy Floyd.
